. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . s extendingover ninety miles. The two fortsnearest the city of Petersburg wereknown by the soldiers as Fort Helland Fort Damnation. From theircasemates the movements of the sol-diers of the beleagured city were dis-tinctly visible. The guns of thesetwo advanced forts were never nightfall, the pickets, with onehundred and fifty rounds of ball car-tridges, left for the outposts, andmany of them never returned. Thenight was made hideous by the roarof huge siege guns, the suddencrashes of musketr
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . s extendingover ninety miles. The two fortsnearest the city of Petersburg wereknown by the soldiers as Fort Helland Fort Damnation. From theircasemates the movements of the sol-diers of the beleagured city were dis-tinctly visible. The guns of thesetwo advanced forts were never nightfall, the pickets, with onehundred and fifty rounds of ball car-tridges, left for the outposts, andmany of them never returned. Thenight was made hideous by the roarof huge siege guns, the suddencrashes of musketry and the crack ofrifle shells. The openings of thebreastworks were so filled with shotduring this siege that in time of trucethe soldiers would dig the narrowopenings out with their fingers. Onthe next page is shown a photographtaken April 2, 1865, in Confederatetrenches at Petersburg just after theircapture by the daring Union troops. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON GRANTS MILITARY RAILROAD WHEN THE I3-INCH MORTAR DICTATOR OK PETERSBURG EXPRESS WAS THROWING SHELLS INTO PETERSBURG IN I 25&g$JS8. GENERALS HANCOCK, BARLOW, ItlRNEY AND GIBBON SIEGE OF PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN JUST BEFORE ITS FALL IN 1865
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